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    Airframe Family: Aeronca 7 Champion/Citabria / L-16 Grasshopper
    Latest Model:L-16A Grasshopper
    Last Military Serial:47-0970 US
    Construction Number:7BCM-184
    Last Civil Registration:N1143V
    Compressed ID:Aeronca L-16A sn 47-0970 US cn 7BCM...
    Latest Owner or Location:Devine Patrick, Weldon Spring, MO

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a L-16A.

    Circa 1947

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 47-0970.

    18 July 1960

    To Civil Air Patrol Inc, New Orleans, LA with new c/r N4011B.

    By 1963

    To Civil Air Patrol, Massetchucets Wing, Wakefield, MA with new c/r N1143V.

    Markings Applied: LH-790

    7 October 1971

    Civil registration, N4011B, cancelled.

    27 July 2009


    Photographer: Todd Royer
    Notes: EAA Airventure 2009

    25 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Oshkosh

    To Saint Charles County Airport/Smartt Field, Saint Charles, MO.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: LH-970

    May 2016


    Photographer: G R Dennis Price
    Notes: At Blakesburg, Iowa

    6 December 2016

    To Devine Patrick, Weldon Spring, MO keeping c/r N1143V.

    11 July 2022

    To Devine Patrick, Weldon Spring, MO keeping c/r N1143V.
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    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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     Terry Fletcher
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